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Bill Manns, President & CEO, Bronson Healthcare
“I grew up thinking I wanted to be a physician,” says Bill Manns, who worked in Michigan’s Wayne County morgue as a teenager to...
Tim Dentry, President & CEO, Northern Light Health
As a former college wrestler, Tim Dentry exhorts people to "pin COVID-19 to the mat" and "avoid being pinned by the virus." His folksiness,...
Marc Boom, MD, President & CEO, Houston Methodist
In the past Marc Boom, MD, often quoted Bill Gates on our tendency to overestimate the amount of change in the short term and...
Michelle Hood, Executive VP and COO, AHA
In love with the sciences since youth, Michelle Hood earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Purdue and began graduate school in neurophysiology. That’s...
Cathy Jacobson, President & CEO, Froedtert Health
Cathy Jacobson always returns to the kitchen. That’s where she began her healthcare career as a 16-year-old in a 70-bed community hospital—a long-ago casualty...
David Entwistle, President & CEO, Stanford Health Care
When David Entwistle was young he dreamed of becoming a famous lawyer. “I took three years of high-school Latin preparing to be an attorney,”...
Gene Woods, President and CEO, Atrium Health
Eugene A. Woods, MBA, MHA, FACHE, is president and chief executive officer of Atrium Health, one of the most comprehensive and highly integrated not-for-profit...
Sharon O’Keefe, President, UChicago Medical Center
Chicago is famous for the propensity of its native sons and daughters to remain Chicagolanders their entire lives. Sharon O’Keefe, president of the University of...
Howard Kern, President and CEO, Sentara Healthcare
As a newly minted graduate in biology and environmental sciences in 1978, Howard P. Kern saw the healthcare industry as full of opportunity and...
Mark Harrison, MD, President & CEO, Intermountain Healthcare
Dr. Marc Harrison - a third-generation physician whose son is now in medical school - took the top job at Intermountain Healthcare in October...
Tina Freese Decker, President & CEO, Spectrum Health
When Tina Freese Decker was growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, chatting about the weather was serious business. Her meteorologist father had cofounded a...
Terry Shaw, President & CEO, Adventist Health System
When Terry Shaw was 14, he was already cleaning grocery stores and warehouses and driving a forklift for a health-food distributor in the Dallas-Fort...
Wright Lassiter III, President & CEO, Henry Ford Health System
“I have one goal,” says Wright L. Lassiter, III: “Reduce the gap between today and what’s possible.” It’s a lifelong mantra he’s using more than...
Johnese Spisso, President, UCLA Health
Johnese Spisso is president of UCLA Health, CEO of UCLA Hospital System and associate vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences. In this role, she...
Patricia Maryland, DrPH, President & CEO, Ascension Healthcare
It’s a cliché to say someone followed a long journey to where they are today, but that’s literally the case with Patricia “Pat” Maryland, soon-to-be...
Dennis Murphy, President & CEO, IU Health
When Dennis Murphy took his mother to the movie "Brooklyn" she said it was like watching her life on screen. Like the movie's protagonists,...
Penny Wheeler, MD, President & CEO, Allina
Sometimes, regardless of training and experience, a rare person appears with "chief executive" written in her heart. Penny Wheeler, MD, fits the description. She...
John Porter, President & CEO Avera
As healthcare undergoes a transformation to a value-based, accountable care model, John Porter may be blessed with just the right background to lead a...
Laura Forese, MD, MPH, EVP & CEO NewYork-Presbyterian
You could say Laura Forese, MD, has been preparing for a leadership role at NewYork-Presbyterian all her life. She grew up just outside New York...
Robert J. Henkel, President & CEO, Ascension Health; EVP, Ascension
Robert J. Henkel, FACHE, is the President and CEO of Ascension Health. He also serves as an Executive Vice President of Ascension Health’s parent organization,...
Barclay Berdan, CEO, Texas Health Resources
Talk about baptism of fire. Within a month of Barclay Berdan becoming CEO of Texas Health Resources in September 2014, the Arlington-based health system...
Michael Shabot, MD, EVP/CCO, Memorial Hermann Health System
I t’s hard to believe Michael Shabot, MD, had no early interest in medicine. But maybe it just had to get in line. “I...
Christine Cassel, MD, President & CEO, National Quality Forum (NQF)
Perhaps it’s not surprising that Christine Cassel, MD, pioneered the program called Choosing Wisely. Earning an undergraduate degree in philosophy at the University of...
Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH, Dean F. Edward Hébert, School of...
Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH, became Dean of the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences,...
David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, President, The Commonwealth Fund
David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, is president of The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that aims to promote a high-performing healthcare system. Dr. Blumenthal is...
Karen DeSalvo, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, US Department...
Dr. Karen DeSalvo is a physician whose 20-year career has focused on improving access to affordable, high quality care for all people, especially vulnerable...
Laura Kaiser, Executive Vice President & COO, Intermountain Healthcare
All of us have been shaped with visible and invisible hands,” says Laura Kaiser, who as executive vice president and COO of Intermountain Healthcare,...
Brian Connolly, President & CEO, Oakwood HealthCare
When Brian Connolly was only 34 he became the first layperson on the board of the Daughters of Charity. It was 1985 and he’d...
Tom Sadvary, President & CEO, Scottsdale Lincoln Health Network
His wife of 37 years, Mary, doesn’t remember it, but Tom Sadvary first met her in an ambulance in Pittsburgh, he a paramedic, she...
Marc Boom, MD, President & CEO, Houston Methodist
The classic American Dream, globally diversified today, involves European immigrants crossing the Atlantic on a freighter, working hard and sacrificing in America so their...
Paul Tang, MD, VP and Chief Innovation & Technology Officer, Palo...
I f an individual could be an epicenter, Paul Tang, MD, would be that person for healthcare in the United States. His day job...
Christine Cassel, MD, President & CEO, National Quality Forum
Perhaps it’s not surprising that Christine Cassel, MD, pioneered the program called Choosing Wisely. Earning an undergraduate degree in philosophy at the University of...
Ernie Sadau, President & CEO, CHRISTUS Health
When Ernie Sadau was a teenager lying in a Fort Worth hospital bed he wrote a note on the dietary-tray response card that he’d...
Don Wegmiller, Chairman, Scottsdale Institute
It’s not surprising Don Wegmiller was elected to the Healthcare Hall of Fame this year. The honor crowns an already brilliant career that enters...
Tom Zenty, President & CEO, University Hospitals Health System
Pennsylvania seems to produce top healthcare executives like it does quarterbacks and Tom Zenty is no exception to that tradition. Zenty, 57, is president...
Nov 2012 – Gary Campbell, President & CEO, Centura Health
Oct 2012 – Dan Wolterman, President & CEO, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
Sep 2012 – Craig Samitt, MD, President & CEO, Dean Clinic
Jul 2012 – Brian Connolly, President & CEO, Oakwood HealthCare
Jun 2012 – Nancy Schlichting, CEO, Henry Ford Health System
Apr 2012 – Alan Goldbloom, MD, President & CEO, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
Mar 2012 – Tom Sadvary, President & CEO, Scottsdale Healthcare
Feb 2012 – Tim Stack, President & CEO, Piedmont Healthcare
Jan 2012 – Doug Hawthorne, CEO, Texas Health Resources
Oct 2011 – Vincent Caponi, CEO, St. Vincent Health
Aug 2011 – Rick Breon,President & CEO, Spectrum Health
Jul 2011 – Tom Priselac, President & CEO, Cedars-Sinai Health System
Jun 2011 – Farzad Mostashari, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HHS
Apr 2011 – Peter Fine, President & CEO, Banner Health
Mar 2011 – Nicholas Wolter, MD, CEO, Billings Clinic
Feb 2011 – Jim Skogsbergh, MD, President & CEO, Advocate Health Care
Nov 2010 – Mark Laney, MD, President & CEO, Heartland Health
Oct 2010 – Dan Wolterman, President & CEO, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
Sep 2010 – Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA, President & CEO, Partners Healthcare
Jul 2010 – Charles Sorenson, MD, President & CEO, Intermountain Healthcare
Jun 2010 – Bruce Lawrence, President & CEO, INTEGRIS Health
May 2010 – Joe Swedish, President & CEO, Trinity Health
Mar 2010 – John Bluford, President & CEO, Truman Medical Centers
Feb 2010 – David Bernd, CEO, Sentara Health Care
Nov 2009 – Hal Williamson, Jr., MD, MSPH, Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia
Sep 2009 – Al Aviles, President & CEO, New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.
Aug 2009 – David Feinberg, MD, MBA, CEO, UCLA Hospital System
Jul 2009 – Don Jernigan, President & CEO, Adventist Health System
Jun 2009 – Kevin Lofton, President & CEO, Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI)
May 2009 – David Benfer, FACHE, CEO, Saint Raphael Healthcare System
Mar 2009 – Jim Anderson, President & CEO, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Feb 2009 – Lowell C. Kruse, President & CEO, Heartland Health
Dec 2008 – James J. Mongan, MD, President & CEO, Partners HealthCare
Nov 2008 – Michael W. Murphy, President & CEO, Sharp HealthCare
Oct 2008 – Thomas Royer, MD, President & CEO, CHRISTUS Health